Fish must be dead before cutting off heads and tails

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Columbia, SC
Time is running out on fishermen all over South Carolina, leaving some wondering about the sport that they love.
A new state law that governs the final disposition of all game fish caught by fishermen is very confusing to say the least.
The state regulation dictates that “a fish(es) caught in fresh waters within the border of South Carolina shall not be decapitated or de-tailed unless the fish has been dead for at least 15 minutes,” and takes effect on November 1, 2018.
The controversial law, passed earlier by the legislation, allows for the “. . . dignity and self-rights of all of the fish in South Carolina.” De-heading or de-tailing game fish while alive would be “inhumanely cruel and harmful” to the fish that were caught by “rod, reel, cane pole, trot line, shore net, trolling boat net, or any other method devised or yet to be devised to catch fish in the state of South Carolina.”
The bill, sponsored by Rep. William Howe (D-Spartanburg), a self-avowed fisherman, was designed to reduce the pain of “. . . our brothers in the animal world” and to reduce the violence directed toward any un-dead fish.

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